Improvement in machines for manufacturing sugar-plums



E. DUJoun n F. COUPP'.

Improvement in Machines for Manufacturing Sugar Plums.

Nn. 23,773, PatentedFeb.2o,1a72.

123,773 y p I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGN DUJOUR AND FRANQOIS COUPP, OF CHARTRES, FRANCE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,773, dated February 20, 1 872.

SPECIFICATION.

We, EUGENE DUJOUE, confectioner, and FRANCOIS COUPPE, mechanician, both of Ghartres, in the Department of the Eure et Loire, France,'have invented an Improved Machine for Manufacturing Gomts or Sugar-Plums;7 of vWhich the following is a specification:

N atare and Objects of the Intention.

Our invention relates to a combined hot and cold air machine for making comts, which machine may be Worked by hand; the object of our invention beingto enable the small confectioner to manufacture his own comts more economically and equally as Well, while employing the same materials, as is now done by large makers using the basins knows as Peponand Bertrands.

Our improved machine coats the comiit in a uniform and regular manner, the product being of the same quality as if made in an oscillating pan. It considerably lessens the labor of the Workman, Who'is no longer affected by the carbonic acid evolved from the large quantity of fuel required in the ordinary manufacture by hand, or by the too great heat; he is also spared the muscular effort now exerted in turning the comfits.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying our invention; and Fig. 2is a front elevation of same, with doors of heater thrown open to display interior arrangement.

General Description.

receptacle may be brought nearer to or withdrawn from the basin, according to the temperature it is desired to maintain. This heater B is closed in front by two doors, serving lfor the introduction of the above-mentioned rec eptacle. The bellying part ofthe basin D containin g the comits passes into the heater B, as indicated by b. The basin is preferably of copper, and it may be readily lifted from its axle for cleaning. A iy, K, acting as a pulley a-nd turning horizontally, drives afan, H, producing a cold blast, directed onto the com- Iits by the pipe I.

On turning the crank Gr, the bevel-pinion g, gearing into l1., causes the axle i to revolve, carrying with it the basin D. The Wheel lz., also gearing with the pinion k on the axle l, drives the fly K and fan H.

The pearling (perlage)l may be effected by means of an ordinary pearler, (perloir,) tted to the basin.

Suppose the speed of the crank to be one: that of the basin Will be equal to one-half, and that of the 'fly to two. The speed of the fan will vary, according to the quantity of cold air required.

To sum up: Our machine offers a saving of time, of power, (by the arrangement of the mechanism,) of fuel, and of gum. .The product is from twenty-five to thirty kilogrammes per basin.

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Witnesses:

JEAN BAPTISTE GIRARD, LOUIS EUGENE GOLsoN. 

